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Knowing how to build and set a trap is a need to know skill for any outdoor person. In fact, it is a skill I wish EVERYONE would learn.
It is very easy to get lost, trapped, and hurt miles from help. Knowing just a few of these skills to catch food could just keep you alive. This will greatly increase your odds of walking out of there or getting rescued.
If SHTF this is also a great way to make sure you and your family have the chance to catch wild game and get much-needed protein into your body.
Over on outdoorlife.com, they show us 15 ways of making survival traps. I would highly recommend printing and saving them in your survival binder.
Knowing how to set a simple trap could literally mean the difference between you eating or dying from starvation. I have used some of these simple traps over the years while camping.
I have trapped squirrels more times than I can remember!
